TotalitarianismAnimal Farm

             Totalitarianism has become a fact that can hardly be ignored. During World War II when Hitler had total control to the Russia of Stalin and later Soviet leaders. For many years people have dreamed or believed in the perfect society of mandkind and of an ultimate utopia, a world where we can live together in peace. George Orwell expresses a different kind of view for the future of mankind, a view where freedom is limited, total control and there isn't any sign of hope or peace. George Orwell expresses his totalitarianism and communist view of the world in his work Animal Farm.
             Power was emphasized in his work Animal Farm. Orwell set a political satire and an allegory. He used animals to represent the government. The pigs were the one with all the power. Orwell gave the pigs the brain and the rest of the animals practically slaves of the pigs. The more power the pigs had the more power the pigs wanted:
             This is demonstrated by the continuity between Mr. Jones, the original proprietor of the farm, and Napoleon, the young boar who contrive to drive out snowball, the only competing boar on the premises, and assumed Jones's former position as well as that of Major, The old patriarch.
             Orwell makes it explicit that the struggles goes on between the only two boars among the pigs. Napoleon ran out Snowball in order to take total control of the farm, and to run his totalitarianism rule over the animals.
             Presently the tumult died down. The four pigs waited, trembling, with guilt written on every line of their countenances. Napoleon now called upon them to confess their crimes. They were the same four pigs as had protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings. Without any further prompting they confessed that they had been secretly in touch with Snowball ever since his expulsion, that they had collaborated with him in destroying the windmill, and that they had entered into an agreement with him to hand over Animal ...

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